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			<h1 class="documentFirstHeading">SAEON</h1>
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			<h3 class="Subheading">SAEON: A DEVELOPING FACILITY OF THE NRF
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			FUNDED BY DST</h3>
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			<p>SAEON is a research facility that establishes and maintains
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			nodes (environmental observatories, field stations or sites) linked
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			by an information management network to serve as research and
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			education platforms for long-term studies of ecosystems that will
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			provide for incremental advances in our understanding of ecosystems
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			and our ability to detect, predict and react to environmental change.
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			The core research programme will strive to distinguish between
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			anthropogenic and natural change as well as to unravel the relations
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			between social change and ecosystem change. One of the primary
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			features of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) approach is that
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			it overcomes the deficiencies associated with postgraduate research
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			projects. Typically those cannot interpret the ever-present temporal
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			and spatial environmental variability because of the pressure to
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			produce a thesis within two to three years. SAEON will bring better
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			and will ensure that LTER data is archived and accessible as a
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			national asset for generations to come.</p>
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			<h3 class="Subheading"><b>WHO SHOULD READ FURTHER?</b></h3>
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				<li>Scientists and students/learners interested in long-term
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				studies of the earth systems and biodiversity</li>
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				<li>Research managers</li>
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				<li>Environmental educators</li>
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				<li>Companies impacting on the goods and services provided by
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				<li>Politicians, policy makers and environmental managers
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				<li>Members of the public whose livelihoods are vulnerable to
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				environmental change</li>
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				<li>Funding agencies interested in developing capacity and
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				promoting knowledge of life-support systems and how they are
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			<h3 class="Subheading"><b>KEYWORDS for SAEON</b></h3>
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			<p>Climate change, global change, environmental change, research,
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			environmental education, rural sociology, environmental information
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			systems, biodiversity, earth systems, ecosystems, social systems,
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			livelihoods, agriculture, monitoring, long-term data series,
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			oceanography, atmospheric sciences, rivers, hydrology, remote
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			sensing, nutrient loading, land-use, ecology, primary production,
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			floods, droughts, public health, industry, economics, human
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			geography, geochemistry, groundwater, vulnerability, fisheries,
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			network, National System of Innovation, societal change,
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			experimentation, multi-disciplinary, research platform, spatial
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			variation, landscape, disturbance regimes, event-driven, site-based,
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			freshwater, soils, sediments, ocean, coast, mountains.</p>
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